NBC Sports Networks thread

I never wanted to pay $80 a year for Peacock Premium on its own.
But all those other channels included for just a $120 a year does tempt me. Much better deal.

I still probably won't do the deal but it is tempting.

 

***Major Correction after research.
TUDN, ESPN Deportes and FOX Deportes are on the Cable Latino TV Latino not the Stream Latino Now.
(Darn AI google search with false info.)

So definitely it is not as good of a deal as I thought but still tempting for people who like some Latino channels bundled in with Peacock access.

 

I just wait for either the summer or Black Friday deal each year. I've paid $19.99 the last two years.

 

$20 a year?
Nice.

 

The newest deals are $24.99/yr, but when I was cancelling my previous deal to get that one with a new email address, they offered me another year at $19.99 and I took it.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/17/media/comcast-peacock-streaming-prices

The price for Peacock’s ad-supported premium plan will increase to $10.99 per month, while the premium plus plan will now be priced at $16.99 per month, starting July 23, according to a statement by the streaming service.

It also sounds like there'll be a new tier at a lower price.

 

I knew the NBA would really put pressure on Peacock pricing. Hopefully the promo prices will be good enough or I'll be missing the premier league this year.

 

The new tier at a lower price is mainly to watch NBC programming on demand, it doesn't include sports.

 

Meanwhile, the traditional TV providers continue to lose "on demand" content.

 

That would make sense, but watch the price be $25.

 

https://deadline.com/2025/07/nbcuniversal-cable-tv-channel-sports-peacock-1236466760/

This is interesting. Apparently NBCU is going to start a linear channel of sports that are live on Peacock.

So...NBCSN? What does this mean for Peacock? Will fewer people get it if there's less Peacock-exclusive stuff?

 

I thought NBCU was spinning off all their cable channels as a separate company?

 

They are.

Another bit: Peacock is, as I'm sure we all know, a available with many TV/internet plans.

 

https://deadline.com/2025/08/comcas...ck-fire-tv-prime-video-xfinity-x1-1236499610/

If I understand this right, Amazon and Comcast have agreed to put Peacock Premium Plus (no commercials, downloads, local NBC) into Amazon devices for the $170/yr price.

I'd assume we're all savvy enough to wait for the annual discounts. Paying approx $80 to put it inside another app isn't right, IMO. I'm still not sure of the benefit for the user to do so, but people obviously like it and I'm sure Jeff Bezos is getting a few million off this.

I'm sure it makes the device's home screen cleaner by limiting the amount of apps there, but, yeah, it's an odd one to put apps inside of apps.

 

It's a subscription inside an app.

 

Yeah, but what's the advantage there vs paying Peacock (or whatever) directly, especially when it's the same price and Peacock offers discounts?

Would it be like Starz where there's a menu *for* Starz stuff and the search function inside the Amazon app brings up Amazon stuff *plus* everything else?

I'd still do it directly and get the discount. (I'm also assuming that the discounts wouldn't apply if bought via the "main" service... Amazon in this case. I'm also assuming that I couldn't pay direct and then plug my Peacock info into Amazon, especially if it's different login information.)

 

Well if you have a Fire Stick you get all your apps via the Fire Stick, or Apple TV, or Roku etc.

 

Same via any other device, right?

 

Right. But if you subscribe to ESPN+ via Fire TV you'll have access on your phone via Prime video, not directly through the ESPN app.

At one point i realized I was paying twice.

 

It seems that the option to pay $20/yr of Peacock Premium and then pay $6 or $7 each month to get rid of the commercials no longer exists. There's a disclaimer in the account section about how changing plans will end promotional pricing.
(Edit: Peacock's online help agent confirmed that my situation at this time is to ride out my current promotion, then weigh the situation in November. If it's $20 for a year without commercials or $160+ for a year without commercials, but with downloads and a redundant NBC stream... yikes.)

It also appears someone did something so changing the DNS doesn't work to block ads.

 

Just an FYI, if they don't offer a deal like the $20/year like last year, check Walmart around black Friday. Last year I got Walmart+ for $49 for the year, which included paramount+. I just saw recently that they are allowing a choice between P+ and Peacock now.